Twitter's Adding Accounts Faster Than a Machine Gun Fires Rounds

Twitter adds an astounding 11 accounts per second according to Twopcharts, and will hit 500 million accounts by the 25th of February. That’s a pretty incredible growth rate by any metric -- adding 660 accounts a minute is faster than an M60 machine gun can fire bullets (up to 650 rounds per minute).

I wonder how many of those are actually real accounts, with people who genuinely want to use Twitter the way it was intended -- telling everyone when they’re taking a dump, of course -- and not spam bots, scammers or “social media experts”. There sure does seem to be a lot of them around.